Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner; Illustrated by Marcia Sewall
	List Price:   $16.89 Unit Price:   $13.51 You Save:   $3.38 (20%) ISBN-10:   0690039840 ISBN-13:   9780690039849 Publisher:   HarperCollins Edition:   illustrated Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   April 1980 Pages:   96 Format:   Hardcover; Library binding Ages:   7 to 11 Grades:   4 to 7
Awards
1987  Maud Hart Lovelace Award  Winner!  1985  Beehive Children's Fictional Book Award  Winner!  1988  Washington Children's Choice Picture Book  Winner!  1989  Flicker Tale Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  1987  Children's Book Award (Colorado) (USA)  Winner!
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Ten-year-old Willy competes against the Indian mountain man, Stone Fox, in the national dogsled races. There's just no stopping little Willy. Determined to keep their farm going -- and to give his ailing grandfather a reason to live -- the ten-year-old boy hitches his dog, Searchlight, to the plow and harvests the whole potato crop. Now little Willy needs five hundred dollars to pay off ten years' back taxes, or the farm will be taken away from them. Dauntless as ever, he stakes everything on one wild hope: that he and Searchlight can outrun the best dogsled racers in the country -- including the legendary Indian, Stone Fox. But the huge mountain man is every bit as intent on winning the big prize money as little Willy is. And he and his five beautiful Samoyeds haven't lost a race yet.... Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, John Reynolds Gardiner's story -- like its hero, little Willy -- has all the ingredients of a winner, right down to the unforeseen drama at the finish line.